Quotes About Legacy

Promise me...that you'll...*cough*...you'll dispose of my body in the waste receptacles...conveniently located by the theater exits...

According to David Maraniss, the author of When Pride Still Mattered, Lombardi's last words, spoken in a delirium on his deathbed, were: "Joe Namath! You're not bigger than football! Remember that!

the Beatles and the Stones, never the Stones and the Beatles.

So go out and live real good and I promise you'll get beat up real bad. But, in a little while after you're dead, you'll be rotted away anyway. It's not gonna matter if you have a few scars. It will matter if you didn't live.

I hope that I would leave a legacy of joy. A legacy of real compassion. Because I think there is great joy in real compassion. I don't think that you can know joy apart from caring deeply about people – caring enough about people that you actually do something.

When I die, they're going to have to bury me because if they don't, I'll stink up the place.

We say—say 'Est Sularis Oth Mithas' in the old tongue. 'My Honor is My Life.

His son had joined the sleepers.

Nec vta nec fortna hominibus perpes est. (Publilius

We pass and leave you lying. No need for rhetoric, for funeral music, for melancholy bugle-calls. No need for tears now, no need for regret. We took our risk with you; you died and we live. We take your noble gift, salute for the last time those lines of pitiable crosses, those solitary mounds, those unknown graves, and turn to live our lives out as we may.

You have the potential to do great good. You will never know the impact you may have because you don't always get to see it, but it does happen. And in your future, you will see many fruits of your labors, if you choose to.

Dedicated to that amazing device, the Required Reading List, better even than artificial respiration for keeping dead authors alive.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't.

Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't.

The waters were his winding sheet, the sea was made for his tomb;Yet for his fame the ocean sea, was not sufficient room.

When asked what he wants for his tombstone epitaph ] Since I'm an atheist, and have no belief whatsoever in life after death, I couldn't care less -- it's not like it'll have any impact on me, since by definition I will be completely extinguished. I guess if someone twisted my arm and forced me to provide an epitaph, it would be 'Don't forget.' Sound advice...

It is clear that John saw himself, not only as one of the Christian prophets, but also as standing in the tradition of Old Testament prophecy.

Words and actions are transient things, and being once past, are nothing; but the effect of them on an immortal soul may be endless.

George Bush knew five times more about the governments of the world—his own included—than Ronald Reagan ever would.

Of course, that made the papers, too. Well, what of it? ... He didn't say the guy's name! ... Gaghhd! Come on! What had the guy ever done—that hadn't been handed to him? ... Dole never could figure what they saw in George Bush.

They showed him in a thousand ways they wanted to make him part of their club, but ... what was their club for? That was half the problem: they were trying to be so nice. Teddy Kennedy sent a shrink up to Wilmington, for the boys ... Kennedys knew about loss.

like maintaining the grounds of a castle when the knight, fallen in battle, will never be returning

My grandfather always said a sudden shiver meant someone had just stepped on the spot where your grave would be.

I was in a round the world hot-air balloon race. Before I left, I wrote a long letter to my children, in case I didn't return. I started the letter by saying, 'Dear Holly and